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Keep up with Laura Lynch
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and Robin Lynn Macy
(once again teaching math in Kansas).

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Dixie Chicks FAQ,
the most definitive list
of Dixie Chicks questions and answers on the 'net. From "How do I get
in touch with the Chicks"
to "Are those eBay autographs genuine", all your answers are here in
one place.
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Vanity
Section
(Awards and such)

Wow!

All-Inclusive was featured in the
March 30, 2000 edition of
Rolling
Stone,
the music magazine that's been on the cutting edge since Laura
Lynch and
Robin Lynn Macy were toddlers, and the Erwin
sisters' parents
were still in high school.

The editors included a blurb about this site in the first
edition of the magazine's new "Netbook"
section, which will feature the top
music sites on the Web. I'm right there next to the venerable
Planet Garth
and
Country Music Miniature
Donkeys,
where you'll find a Grand Champion named George Jones.

All-Inclusive was selected as one of the ten
Finalists in the CountryNow.comSecond Annual Fan Site Awards, in the
Amateur division. The winner, announced on
June 10, 1999, was Totally Trisha
--
congratulations to webmaster Kenneth Lee!

In other news...

It's here!

The first single from the Chicks' next album, Taking the Long Way,
has been released on iTunes!
Promoted on the front page, the track immediately jumped into the top 20.
Samples from the rest of the album are available at ChicksRockChicksRule.com.

The Latest

The Chicks' new album, Taking the Long Way,
is slated for a May 2006 release.
The first
single, "Not Ready to Make Nice", doesn't bear much resemblance to
the Chicks' original bluegrass/Western
sound, but it fits right in with today's pop-country scene -- though
its direct approach to the last three years' troubles has kept it from
breaking out of the lower quarter of the Country Top 40 charts.
For the latest news
on the release and its impact on the music scene, listen to the buzz at
Nici's
DixieChicksFans.net forum.

Meanwhile, this site is woefully out of date. I'm hoping
to get things back together before the album is released!
Messages of encouragement may be sent to dc at
dixie dash chicks dot com.
Messages equating certain outspoken singers with terrorists may be sent
to /dev/null (that's geekspeak for the trash bin).

"I'm not ready to make nice; I'm not ready to
back down..."

A few details...
The Chicks have been very busy over the past couple of years... and so
has this site's
webmaster! Here are just a few of the important events that haven't
been covered here,
as of September 2004:

You may be familiar with a little falling-out
the Chicks have had with the Country Music
establishment? A good overview of the situation (with a neutral point
of view) can be found at
Wikipedia.

Meanwhile, the group has cut their seventh
full-length CD.
Top
Of The World Tour Live
is their first "Live" CD, and it may be their last
"Nashville" release.
Whatever they do in the future, expect the Chicks to have some
surprises waiting for us!
(And if you think I can't count, check out the Discography.)

The Groobees (featuring Susan
Gibson, the songwriter behind Wide Open Spaces)
released Buy One Get Eleven Free... and then
broke up! Their web site died
in January, 2003, but don't worry -- you can visit the mirror site right here!

The male lead of The Groobees, Scott Melott,
has also been on the go.
His new group, Dead
End Angels,
continues the Groobee tradition of great songwriting with just a touch
more edginess.
Texas
Music Express also carries their CDs.

It's a tough business. Robin Macy's new group, Big
Twang, released
Pastures of Plenty. It's great -- check it
out if you can! But it might be hard to find...
Big Twang broke up, too. BigTwang.com soon
followed,
but it's also mirrored here.

The Dixie Chicks responded
to the tragedy of September 11, 2001 by singing
"I Believe in Love" on the America: A Tribute To Heroes
TV special and soundtrack
album. They also recorded a stirring rendition of "The Star Spangled
Banner", and made it
available on their site as a downloadable .exe file. For Mac users and
the rest of us who
do not download .exe's, the Flash version is
available here
on this site (635k .swf file).
No I don't have permission, so don't
tell the Lawyers!

Sara Hickman re-released the
full ten-track edition of the self-titled
Domestic Science Club CD, including the
standout song "Windmill and the Wind" that
perfectly captures the essence of the original Dixie Chicks -- even
though Robin Macy
was the only former Chick on the disc. See the Discography
for details, and visit Sara
Hickman's site
to buy it!

Introduction to
the Dixie Chicks
The Dixie Chicks are red hot and on a roll... but did you know that
they've been around for
over a decade? This quick introduction
will get you started with the basics of who they were...
and how they've evolved into the divas of
Country Music.

Sony Nashville has a timeline, but
you'll have to come here to
find out when founding Dixie Chicks Laura Lynch
and Robin Lynn Macy
left the group.

The
Complete Discography
The Dixie Chicks breakout album, Wide Open Spaces,
is not the first release
by the group... and I Can Love You Better isn't
even their first single!
This page includes information about past and future releases and
compilations that
include the Dixie Chicks -- from the 45 rpm
single release
Home On The Radar Range to their second
major-label release,
tentatively titled Sin Wagon but now tamed to Fly.

Read how Ready To Run, the first single from the
new album, bridges the gap
between the "Old Chicks" sound and the "New Chicks" attitude!

The Chick
Chat Archive
Before they hit the big time -- and one time after -- the Dixie
Chicks
sent a newsletter to their loyal fans. The
irregularly published Chick Chat was a
facinating stream-of-conciousness
look into the lives of a group of
talented young ladies (and gentlemen) struggling with life on the road.

Dixie
Chicks Stories
The Dixie Chicks have always been loyal
to their fans, new and old.
In fact, you can read several stories by new fans who have met the
sweetest ladies in
Country Music on any of the sites in the
Dixie Chicks WebRing...
but visit this page to read stories from before
the Chicks hit big, when they played
in school cafeterias, at private parties, and yes, on street corners in
Dallas.

Suzanne's
Dixie Chicks Scrapbook
The Dixie Chicks, old and new, have always been surrounded by
appreciative and devoted fans. One of the "Old
Chicks'" biggest fans was Suzanne Lamb,
and she has very graciously given me her permission
to tell her Dixie Chicks story in pictures! She started following the
Chicks in late 1992 and stayed around all the way
through the album release party for 1998's Wide Open Spaces.

Dixie
Chicks Pictures
This page features images of the original
Dixie Chicks, including
Robin and Laura.
It includes old publicity photos,
scans of the CD liner notes from the first three albums, old concert
photos
and pictures of the original Dixie Chicks posing with their fans.
And if you're surfing with images off,
don't worry... this page is completely text-friendly,
unlike far too many other Chicks Pix sites.

Original
Dixie Chicks MP3 Files
Did you know that the Dixie Chicks released three
independent albums before their
six-million-selling Wide Open Spaces? Listen to
these samples for echoes of something
completely unique -- something Nashville had been missing for a long
time.

Samples Only!
Full-length bootleg .mp3 filez are not
available and I will
not send you one by e-mail -- don't
ask!

History
of this Site
More than just the story behind this web site, learn here the story
behind the Dixie Chicks' own forays
into the World Wide Web. From the Chicks' first steps onto the 'net,
through the rollercoaster ride of
dixiechicks.com, and more! Includes an
exclusive, fully functional mirror of the Chicks'
first-ever web page, long since lost in 'net oblivion.

Site
Index (under construction)
Direct links to every page on the site. If you're looking for something
in particular, but don't need to
go through the Timeline or Discography, you can find your way there
from here.
You'll find even more information on the Dixie Chicks' history,
including Sound Files
(and the corresponding Cease And Desist
letter!), information on related
groups like Domestic Science Club, Liner
Notes,
and my selections for the Greatest Hits of the Dixie
Chicks.
Now includes links to stories about the All-Inclusive
Dixie Chicks Page --
and much more.

Dixie
Chicks Links (under construction)
Among the dozens of web sites and news articles with information about
the "new"
Dixie Chicks are a handful of sites
that discuss the full history of the group.
Also includes links to other useful tidbits of info on the New
Chicks,
the Old Chicks, and even to other groups
like
The Groobees, who originally recorded
the 4-week
#1 smash-hit title cut to Wide Open Spaces.

Update
Announcements!
If you'd like to be informed of updates to this site, then please
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to my announcement-only mailing list,
hosted by eGroups.
I'll be sending a short message once or twice a month detailing the
latest additions.
Click
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Buy music by
the Dixie Chicks (and friends)
By late 1998, Dallas' Crystal Clear Sound
lost the rights to publish
the Dixie Chicks' independent releases. But check this page for hints
on how to find
these rarities on eBay -- and if you
don't have $200 for a copy of
Dale Evans, find out where to find some
still-available gems by related artists.

Dallas' KHYI 95.3
The Range
has all the Chicks' CDs.
(But can we get them
played?)

The Dixie Chicks' early releases (1990's Thank Heavens for
Dale Evans,
1992's Little Ol' Cowgirl, and 1993's Shouldn't
A Told You That) are
running from $50 to $200 a piece on eBay,
but if that's too rich for your blood, don't worry!
There are a few radical country stations whose jocks knew the Chicks before
they hit big.
As the Internet gives small-signal and internet-only
stations worldwide
reach, the sweet sounds of the original Dixie Chicks
are on the air again.

But they're not a new group -- these Chicks
have paid their dues. And they've
gone through some changes. Haven't we all?

What the Nashville marketing machine has
chosen to ignore -- not surprisingly --
is the true history of the Dixie Chicks. By their own admission, the
group is concerned about "confusion."
But the current Dixie Chicks -- Natalie Maines,
Emily Erwin,
and Martie Seidel -- would not exist now
if it were not for the Dixie Chicks of the past.
It was Laura Lynch and Robin
Macy, along with sisters
Emily and Martie Erwin, who created the Dixie Chicks on a street corner
in Dallas in 1989.

They do remember!

That was then:

[Emily] Erwin and [Martie] Seidel are hardly
rookies, though; the two recorded three albums on an indie label with
another singer, a collection Erwin hopes "never surfaces," since "they
don't
have the pure Dixie Chicks sound." Which is? "Old-time country played
with a
new sensibility by three blonds is the best I can figure it."

- Entertainment Weekly, December 1998

This is now:

Says [Natalie] Maines: "There's three blondes who like hair
and makeup and
clothes, and unless you know the history -- that the band started 10
years
ago and this configuration's been together for 4 years and all that --
it
looks like it's just Nashville trying to make a country Spice Girls."

- Entertainment Weekly, July 1999

Way to go, Chicks!

Chicks Rule!
This site is owned by Robert Brooks,
dc at dixie dash
chicks dot com

The Dixie Chicks Webring, as well as the
Dixie Chicks
eGroups
discussion list,
is owned by Nici Larson. Her site,
established in Spring 1998, is the first and the best of the "New
Chicks"
web sites -- be sure to visit dixiechicksfans.net
(formerly .com)
for the latest news and gossip.

Disclaimers

This page is neither affiliated with nor endorsed by the Dixie Chicks,
or by any of their present or
past members. It is the original creation of Robert Brooks (dc
at dixie dash chicks dot
com),
who is solely responsible for its content. The official
Dixie Chicks web site can be found at
dixiechicks.com.

All original material is (c) 1998-2006 by Robert Brooks. Original
images (c) 1998-2000 by Cryptic Productions.
Unless otherwise noted, all other images have been
lifted from various company and fan sites, with attribution in the img
tag.